The bar chart shows the number of male and female people arrested by type of offence (crime). Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart expresses the situation in the world of crimes in terms of gender in the period 2008-2009.

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, it shows the percentage of males and females who committed a certain kind of crime,

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as robbery, burglary, fraud, forgery and other common types. In general, the most common offence groups were violence against the person and theft and handling stolen goods on average with 31-33% and 21-32% respectively,

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others took a proportion not above 15% among the population. Robbery and fraud were the least common in 2008-2009.

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, on average they took only 1,5-2,5% and 2,5-3,5% respectively.

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, it is important to mention that women had the highest numbers in 3 categories,

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, violence against the person, theft and handling stolen goods and fraud and forgery

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men got ahead in robbery, burglary, criminal damage, drug offences and others.

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, there is not a huge difference between males and females in violence and the biggest one is in theft.

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,

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data ruins all stereotypes about the nature of crimes and gender’s role in it.